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February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 328 days remaining, 329 in leap years.

Events

300-1899

337 - Julius I is elected pope.

1778 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.

1788 - Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.

1806 - Royal Navy victory off Santo Domingo - Action of 6 February 1806.

1815 - New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to a John Stevens.

1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.

1820 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society established a settlement in present-day Liberia

1840 - Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.

1843 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).

1862 - American Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee.

1899 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris (1898), a peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.

1900-1999

1900 - The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.

1922 - Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.

1922 - The Washington Naval Treaty was signed in Washington, DC, limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.

1933 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.

1936 - 1936 Winter Olympic Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

1952 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse in a tree-top hotel in Kenya.

1958 - Bobby Charlton survived the Munich air disaster in Germany, which killed eight of his teammates with Manchester United F.C.

1959 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.

1959 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.

1968 - 1968 Winter Olympic Games open in Grenoble, France.

1978 - The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.

1985 - Steve Wozniak leaves Apple Computer.

1996 - A Turkish Airlines Boeing 757 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Dominican Republic killing 189

1998 - Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.

2000-2099

2004 - In Russia, a suicide-attack in a Moscow metro kills 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine. The blast is blamed on Chechen separatist groups.

2005 - Super Bowl XXXIX: The New England Patriots win their third title in four years by defeating the Philadelphia Eagles 24-21.